Carter continues his blather-bleating: Bush did this and Bush is that. And all this to obscure the monumental mismanagement of his own administration, which I had the privilege of missing entirely. From his recent remarks to the press:

I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history. The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including [those of] George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.

Christopher Hitchens, who has stuck his finger in one too many pies of late, has nevertheless said some stuff that needed to be said:

Peanut Envy.